Assassin’s Creed Discovery Tour: Viking Age, the free-roam education and exploration mode for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla that Ubisoft announced during E3 2021, is available today. Like Discovery Tours for 2017’s Assassin’s Creed Origins and 2018’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Viking Age is both a free expansion for those who already own...
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The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 current-gen upgrades delayed until 2022
The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X updates of CD Projekt RED’s two open-world games, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077, have been delayed until 2022, the company announced on Wednesday. The delay was announced without much fanfare in a brief statement from the developer’s parent company, CD...
Smash Bros. fans are making horrifying knockoffs of Disney characters
Sora, the final character to join the ranks of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate’s giant roster, finally joined the fight on Monday. And although references to Disney favorites like Mickey Mouse have been cut from the game (with the exception of the Mickey Mouse trinket on Sora’s Keyblade), fans have stepped...
Forget the battle royale genre, Mario Party is the real Squid Game
If you have been paying any attention to what’s on TV in the past month or two, you’ve probably heard of Netflix’s runaway success, Squid Game. Whether you’ve seen the show itself, memes inspired by it, or the Roblox versions of it — the Korean thriller quickly took over our...
Netflix’s new ‘most-watched’ metric is a win for Martin Scorsese and The Kissing Booth
Netflix’s viewer numbers have always been a little murky, but the streaming giant’s new system aims to clear things up. Netflix will soon track viewer numbers based on the number of hours a certain show or movie has been watched, the streamer announced during its Q3 earnings report on Tuesday....
Microsoft Flight Simulator gets a free Game of the Year update in November
A major update is coming to Microsoft Flight Simulator on Windows PC and Xbox Series X, one that will add five new aircraft (including the game’s first military jet, the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet), eight new airports, and other new community-requested features. Microsoft and developer Asobo Studio are calling the...
New Splinter Cell reportedly in development
A mainline console and PC title for Ubisoft’s Splinter Cell series is in development, reports Video Games Chronicle. The news comes right as a demoralized community of Tom Clancy fans practically downvoted Ubisoft’s free-to-play Ghost Recon into a delay. Video Games Chronicle sourced its report to two unnamed persons with...
New Pokémon Legends: Arceus teaser looks like found-footage horror
Ahead of Pokémon Legends: Arceus’ Jan. 28, 2022 release date, The Pokémon Company has released ... a creepy found-footage horror video. The Pokémon Company has a tendency for wrapping its cute creatures up in darkness — see Basculegion — but the new Pokémon Legends: Arceus trailer drops the cute and...
Harry Styles has reportedly joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in a potentially spoilery way
There are many potential paths for the future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to take, but its Celestial overseers are interested in one direction in particular: Harry Styles. [Ed. note: This post contains potential spoilers for upcoming Marvel movies] According to reports from the Eternals’ premiere on Monday night, the...
Apex Legends’ newest character is Ash, a familiar face from Titanfall 2
Ash is finally joining the Apex Games. The Titanfall 2 character is the next Legend Respawn Entertainment is adding to Apex Legends. Ash is a Simulacrum Pilot, or a robot with a human’s mind. In this case that human is Dr. Ashleigh Reid, the former partner and apprentice of Horizon...